As the pace of life in the 21st Century continues to accelerate at breakneck speed, and new electronic devices enable us instantly to tune out our immediate surroundings, directing our attention elsewhere, my ambition has become to slow down in order to observe the land and cityscapes before me.

Rather as a beekeeper in March awaits the special hum indicating the presense of a swarm of bees, I tend to roam with a sketchbook and canvas until I light upon a particular confluence of angles, textures, and objects of contrasting scale.

Once the easel is set up, the objective is to fix an image of the fleeting moment: a blue truck rolling through a new mown hay field, a storm brewing over a late 19th century Midwestern house, a cup of coffee left half empty on the table.

Beyond that moment, in choosing the elements that compose the picture, I seek an essential quality that links grain elevators, tractors, fields of sunflowers, kitchen tables, books, city buildings, to another place, or even another country, sometime in the distant past, or perhaps, the indefinite future.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 “Time & Tempo”, Marsac, (Tarn et Garonne), France

2015 Christie’s South Kensington, London, UK

2014 Dialogues, Galerie Deschler, Berlin, Germany

2013 A Restless Harmony, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, California